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Street-Porter has homes in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire,[25]Kent and London.[26] An active member of the Nidderdale community, she contributes her time and energy to a number of local causes. She is currently the president of the Burley Bridge Association, leading a campaign for a crossing over the River Wharfe linking North and West Yorkshire.[27]

A friend of the model Elizabeth Hurley, Street-Porter danced with Hurley and six others at Indian-style celebrations the night before Hurley's marriage to Arun Nayar in 2007.[24]

While studying architecture, Street-Porter married another student, Tim Street-Porter.[5] He was the first of four husbands.[23]

Personal life

In 1966, Street-Porter appeared as an extra in the nightclub scene in Blowup, dancing in a silver coat and striped trousers. In 2003, she wrote and presented a one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival titled All the Rage.[2] She published the autobiographical Baggage in 2004, about her childhood in working class London. Its sequel is titled Fallout.[2]Life's Too F***ing Short is a volume which presents, as she puts it, her answer to "getting what you want out of life by the most direct route."

Street-Porter was president of the Ramblers' Association for two years from 1994. She walked across Britain from Dungeness in Kent to Conwy in Wales for the television series Coast to Coast in 1998.[5] Street-Porter also walked from Edinburgh to London in a straight line in 1998, for a television series and her book, As the Crow Flies.[22] In 1994, for the documentary series The Longest Walk, Street-Porter visited long-distance walker Ffyona Campbell on the last section of her round-the-world walk.

The Clerkenwell house commissioned by Janet Street-Porter

Other activities

Street-Porter has also attracted criticism over an article on depression in the Daily Mail in May 2010, in which she said, "Depression? It's just the new trendy illness!"[16] People have criticised the article for being condescending to those who suffer from depression and belittling the issue.[17][18][19] In October 2012, Ed Miliband mentioned this article in a speech on mental illness,[20] calling it "a shocking article".[21]

Knowing that he was an alcoholic is critical to understanding his sense of disorientation and his attitude towards the police, which might on first viewing of the video footage, seem a bit stroppy.[15]

Controversy

Street-Porter became editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1999. Despite derision from her critics, she took the paper's circulation up to 270,460, an increase of 11.6 per cent.[5] In 2002, Street-Porter became editor-at-large as well as writing a regular column.

Newspaper work

Since 1 September 2014, Street-Porter has co-hosted BBC One cookery programme A Taste of Britain with chef Brian Turner.[14]

In 2013, she appeared in Celebrity MasterChef reaching the final three. She also appeared in the television show QI.

In 2011, Street-Porter became a regular panellist on ITV's chat show Loose Women.

In 2007, Street-Porter starred in an ITV2 reality show called Deadline, serving as a tough-talking editor who worked with a team of celebrity "reporters" whose job it was to produce a weekly gossip magazine. The celebrities in question had to endure the Street-Porter tongue as she decided each week which of them to fire.[13]

In 2006, Street-Porter appeared regularly on chef Gordon Ramsay's The F-Word, as a "field correspondent." It was her job to locate outlandish or unusual food such as crocodile and then tempt diners to have a taste. In the third series of the show, Street-Porter caused controversy when she attempted to serve up horse meat at Cheltenham Racecourse. She was thwarted by the police, who described the stunt as highly provocative, and she had to dish the meat out elsewhere. Ramsay himself became the target of animal rights protesters, who dumped a ton of horse manure outside his restaurant at Claridge's.[12]

In 2000, Street-Porter was nominated for the "Mae West Award for the Most Outspoken Woman in the Industry" at Carlton Television's Women in Film and Television Awards.[5]

Since 1996, Street-Porter has appeared several times on the BBC panel game Have I Got News for You, most recently in October 2014.[11]

Since 1998, Street-Porter has appeared annually on BBC's Question Time except in 2013.

Street-Porter conducted numerous interviews with business figures and others for Bloomberg TV.[10]

Street-Porter has appeared on numerous reality TV shows, including Call Me a Cabbie and So You Think You Can Teach. The latter saw her trying to work as a primary school teacher.[10]

Street-Porter's approach did not endear her to critics, who objected to her diction and questioned her suitability as an influence on Britain's youth.[9] In her final year at the BBC, she became head of independent commissioning. She left the BBC for Mirror Group Newspapers in 1994 to become joint-managing director with Kelvin MacKenzie[9] of the ill-fated L!VE TV channel. She left after four months.[5] In 1996, Street-Porter set up her own production company.

Street-Porter started in television at LWT in 1975, first as a reporter on a series of mainly youth-oriented programmes, including The London Weekend Show (1975–79), then went on to present the late-night chat show Saturday Night People (1978–80) with Clive James and Russell Harty. She later produced Twentieth Century Box (1980–82), presented by Danny Baker.[5]

Television

In early 1975, Street-Porter was launch editor of Sell Out, an offshoot of the London listings magazine Time Out, with its publisher and her second husband, Tony Elliott. The magazine was not a success.[8]

When the LBC local radio station began to broadcast in 1973, Street-Porter co-presented a mid-morning show with Fleet Street columnist Paul Callan.[7] The intention was sharply to contrast the urbane Callan and the urban Street-Porter. Their respective accents became known to the station's studio engineers as "cut-glass" and "cut-froat." Friction between the ill-sorted pair involved constant one-upmanship that made for compelling listening.

Street-Porter dropped out of college and found media work. After a brief stint at a girls' magazine called Petticoat, she joined the Daily Mail in 1969, where she became the deputy fashion editor.[6] Street-Porter became fashion editor of the Evening Standard in 1971.[5]

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